Installation

System-Wide Installation

Installing the internetarchive library globally on your system can be done with pip. This is the recommended method for installing internetarchive (see below for details on installing pip):

$ sudo python3 -m pip install internetarchive

To update, you can run the following command:

$  sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade internetarchive

Installing Pip

If you are running Python 3.4+, you should already have pip installed. If it is not already installed, it can be installed with the get-pip.py script:

$ curl -LOs https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ python3 get-pip.py

virtualenv

If you don’t want to, or can’t, install the package system-wide you can use virtualenv to create an isolated Python environment.

First, make sure virtualenv is installed on your system. If it’s not, you can do so with pip:

$ sudo python3 -m pip install virtualenv

Or your systems package manager, apt-get for example:

$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Once you have virtualenv installed on your system, create a virtualenv:

$ mkdir myproject
$ cd myproject
$ virtualenv venv
New python executable in venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip............done.

Activate your virtualenv:

$ . venv/bin/activate

Install internetarchive into your virtualenv:

$ pip install internetarchive

Binaries

Binaries are also available for the ia command-line tool:

$ curl -LOs https://archive.org/download/ia-pex/ia
$ chmod +x ia

Binaries are generated with PEX. The only requirement for using the binaries is that you have Python 3 installed on a Unix-like operating system.

For more details on the command-line interface please refer to the README, or ia help.

Python 2

If you are on an older operating system that only has Python 2 installed, it’s highly suggested that you upgrade to Python 3. If for any reason you are not able to, the latest version of ia that supports Python 2 is 2.3.0.

You can install and use version v2.3.0 with pip:

$ sudo python2 -m pip install internetarchive==2.3.0

You can also download a binary of v2.3.0:

$ curl -LOs https://archive.org/download/ia-pex/ia-py2
$ chmod +x ia-py2

Get the Code

Internetarchive is actively developed on GitHub.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive.git

Download the tarball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/tarball/master

Or, download the zipball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/zipball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it into your site-packages easily:

$ python setup.py install